In The American Prospect, Paul Waldman wonders whether Obama has reached a tipping point in terms of losing the faith of progressives. While progressives have grumbled since the beginning of his presidency about Obama’s olive branches to Republicans, both symbolic and substantive, these concessions have gotten more frustrating as it has become clear that they [...]
Entries Tagged as 'health care reform'
Mr. Moonlight
June 18th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Law and Justice, Politics
Check out my guest post on the Virginia Attorney General’s frivolous anti-health lawsuit. It’s on the blog of the Virginia Organizing Project, a wonderful grassroots organization empowering people in local communities to improve their quality of life. -AR
Tags: Commerce Clause·health care·health care lawsuits·health care reform·Ken Cuccinelli·Virginia Organizing Project
Health Care Showdown!
March 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics
On the pages of the Butler Eagle: me vs. this lunatic. Personally, I think I got the better of this exchange, but that might just be because that’s what the chip that George Soros implanted in my brain wants me to think. One thing I will say for Mr. Been: he’s definitely been paying attention [...]
Tags: Butler·Butler Eagle·health care·health care reform·right-wing hysteria
Slippery Slope Alert!
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Supreme Court
In addition to campaigning on a pledge to repeal health care form, the other track opponents of the new law are taking is to challenge its constitutionality, particularly the constitutionality of the individual mandate. The argument is that the individual mandate exceeds the federal government’s authority to tax and to regulate interstate commerce, and if [...]
Tags: Commerce Clause·conservative logic·constitutional law·Glenn Beck·health care·health care reform·republican democracy·substantive due process
Another History Lesson
March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics
Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California has come to the defense of Tea Party protesters hurling racial and homophobic slurs at members of Congress, finding such behavior understandable because “[w]hen you use a totalitarian tactics, people, you know, begin to act crazy.” Both halves of Rep. Nunes “totalitarian tactics justify hate speech” rationale are incorrect. [...]
Tags: Devin Nunes·health care·health care reform·John Lewis·non-violent protest·right-wing hysteria·Tea Parties
Republicans and History
March 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · AR, Politics
Not content to lie about the present and the future, Republicans have stepped up efforts to rewrite history. In Texas, the right-wing elected officials charged with setting the state’s curriculum voted to ensure that Texas schoolchildren will learn, among other things, that the founders were Christian, there is no separation of church and state, Thomas [...]
Tags: Dick Armey·education·health care reform·history·McCarthy·Paul Broun·Republican idiocy·Republicans·right-wing hysteria·Steve King·Texas·Texas textbooks·The Great War of Yankee Aggression·Velvet Revolution